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pinko (commie)

1. noun A derogatory term for someone who holds liberal, socialist, or communist political views or beliefs. My uncle was labeled as a pinko all his life for trying to improve workers' rights in his region. So you want the government to give everyone free housing, free healthcare, and free food? What are you, some kind of pinko commie?
2. adjective Having very liberal, socialist, or communist political views or beliefs. It's pinko liberals like you who are driving up our taxes! My pinko commie brother-in-law thinks anyone making a profit for themselves is inherently greedy.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

pinko

1. n. a communist. (Popular during the 1950s.) Get out of here, you pinko!
2. mod. having communist tendencies; in the manner of a communist. Get that pinko jerk out of here!
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • pinko (commie)
  • bummer
  • angle
  • angling
  • trannie
  • tranny
  • wear (one's) apron high
  • high
  • high, wide, and handsome
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Give 'it a a week and he'll get those pinko pacifists whipped into shape, mark my words.
He'd previously pitched in at the Human Rights Campaign and the Stonewall Democrats--qualifications that earned him the nickname "commie pinko" from one CEO he worked for.
The pinko sissy Harry Hay gets a mention as "the Urvater of the idea of [gay] community," but Robinson neglects to note that Hay was expelled from the Mattachine Society that he helped to found, as he'd earlier been expelled from the Communist Party.
had sworn that none of these "pinko outside agitators" were going to march around the city and state buildings.
Newspaper editors in Red States who fail to toe the dominant party line are either pinko idiots or stooges of their left-wing corporate bosses.
For instance, he points out that "the most dramatic story about the NFB was the communist scare in the late 1940s" when founder John Grierson hightailed it out of the country under suspicion of ringleading a nest of wild-eyed pinko spies.
The red hunt was misguided because the equation that came to define the McCarthy era (to be a liberal is to be a pinko is to be a red is to be a spy) was misguided.
And the voguish term for today's Democratic frontrunner, decorated Vietnam veteran John Kerry isn't "pinko," but "tough dove."
It would be unseemly for the Hoiles family, after preaching to all of us all these years, to sell their paper[s] to a dirty, rotten, pinko rat.
Marchers included the usual muesli- munching, sandal-shod, tree-hugging pinko hippies who would demonstrate to save the shrimp, or campaign against the opening of a paper bag.
Ivan Pinko, president NotaBene Associates, Longboat Key, FL, discussed the air laid market in his discussion titled, "The Challenge: Why Air Laids And Why Now." With some 120,000 tons of air laid capacity being added around the world, Mr.
pinko nonsense like alcohol, high spirits or dancing